Plot - Radian Scale (MATLAB)

1. Oct 3, 2009

danago

I want to create a plot, but want the horizontal axis to have increments as multiples of pi eg. {0, pi/2, pi, 3pi/2, ... }

Is this at all possible in matlab?

2. Oct 3, 2009

jamesrc

Yes - you can set where the tick marks are on an axis:

This will control where the ticks go (use whatever range you want):
set(gca,'XTick',0:pi/2:3*pi/2)

(Note that gca returns the handle for the current set of axes)

This will control the labels for the ticks:
set(gca,'XTickLabel',{'0','pi/2','pi','3pi/2'})

So you can attach text labels to all of your tick marks - make sure that you have the correct number of labels - I think if you have more tick marks than labels, MATLAB will just cycle back through your list of labels for the extra tick marks. Also, I know that MATLAB supports some tex and latex formatting so that you could display $$\pi$$ instead of pi, but I'm not sure if that is supported for tick labels (and if it is I'd have to play around with it to figure out how that works).

3. Oct 3, 2009

danago

Thanks very much, exactly what i was after

4. Oct 3, 2009

ApexOfDE

Unfortunately, matlab cant display tex characters in tick labels.

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